"Variant of Job"
The name Eyob is commonly a male name from the "Hebrew" origin.
Eyob is the Amharic form of the name Job, the figure of the biblical book of Job. The same name is written Iyob in Ge'ez and Tigrinya, and it is used as a given name in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It differs from the English Job in its opening vowel and its final consonant.
Job means "Distressed, Afflicted.".
The pronunciation of Eyob is EE-yob.